Can the TA bin you anytime they feel like? If so, does the 12 yr engagement make much difference?

It is always interesting to watch people eat, but nothing provides more interest than the sight of a tableful of fat people tucking into their chow. It is a curious thing but even the most greedy & rapacious fat people never look as though they are enjoying themselves. It is as if they are merely fulfilling some longstanding obligation to maintain their bulk.

Old-Salt

MSR i agree; it's pension or bounty and if you work it out on the average TA salary you have got to be better off with a bounty. Even at 50 days at 80 pounds a day that is Â£4000 a year. Bounty at top level is equivalent to over a third. I think most pension contributions for companies are under 20%.

And if mobilised you get a pension.

And last time I got involved in the sacking STABs argument although THEORETICALLY the CO can remove anyone from his unit and the TA (we were trying to get rid of someone) the pro bono advice from two barristers of long call in the unit was that it would be extremely inadvisable (whatever the strict rules said) not to follow the reasonable HR approach i.e. verbal warning followed by two written warnings etc so I think (hope) the days of sacking on the spot (unless gross misconduct) are gone.

War Hero

It is always interesting to watch people eat, but nothing provides more interest than the sight of a tableful of fat people tucking into their chow. It is a curious thing but even the most greedy & rapacious fat people never look as though they are enjoying themselves. It is as if they are merely fulfilling some longstanding obligation to maintain their bulk.